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As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in buildings, moving people and goods from one place to another and making things. This book uses simple classical physics (mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism) to quantitatively review sources of energy and how we use them.

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.

Why Keynes is relevant to today's global economic crisis, and how Keynesian ideas can point the way to renewed economic growth.

Written by two leaders in the field, this book clarifies the complex relationship between plasticity and robustness in the context of development and evolution. Essential reading for biologists and psychologists interested in epigenetics and evolution, it is also a valuable resource for biological anthropologists, sociobiologists, child psychologists and paediatricians.

A ground-breaking and fascinating account of fetal origins of adult disease.

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression.

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities.